IVERMECTIN NO EFFECT ON COVID - Studies reported by The Age and republished on Apple News today.
below first are the headlines from this article, then a key excerpt from it. Much of the early part of the article deals with the dodgy and in some cases non-existent research that quickly appeared early in the pandemic supporting the use of ivermectin against Covid-19.
it was these bogus studies the antivaxx darlings wrongly used to further their idiotic claims about ivermectin.
THE AGE
"Finally, we have closure on that horse drug ‘COVID cure’, ivermectin. Well, sort of.
"Two highly reputable studies show once and for all that ivermectin has no effect on COVID-19 – but that doesn’t mean we’ve heard the last of it."
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"Finally, with the publication of two studies, we now have the conclusive evidence we’ve lacked.
"The TOGETHER trial randomised patients with COVID-19 and who were at risk of severe illness, giving them either ivermectin or a placebo.
"To understand their results, you need to know a little about “credible intervals”. In clinical trials, it is difficult if not impossible to know a result (like how effective a drug is) with 100 per cent certainty. Instead, papers will often report a range of values within which the true value most likely lies.Anything less than one means ivermectin helps with COVID-19, and anything more than one means it makes the patient worse.
"TOGETHER reported a credible interval of 0.70 to 1.16 – suggesting it is probably doing nothing at all.
"We can now add another study called ACTIV, whose latest paper is just out in JAMA. This one enrolled patients who had COVID, giving them either a placebo or ivermectin (in both normal and high doses).
"Looking at the high-dose study, time to recovery was 11 days in both groups: no difference. Of those on ivermectin, 5.7 per cent were hospitalised or died, compared to 6 per cent in the placebo group.
""They are rigorously designed and multi-centre trials,” says David Henry. “The researchers are independent – they don’t have a vested interest, they haven’t expressed strong prior views.“We now know this drug does not work for COVID-19.”"
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